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transfluvial, a.|trɑːnsˈfluːvɪəl, træns-|
[ad. post-cl. L. transfluviāl-is, f. trans, trans- + fluvi-us a river: see -al1.]
Situated or dwelling across or beyond a river: in quot. 1806 rendering Heb. ﻋib'rī ‘one from the other side’, i.e. from beyond the Jordan or ? the Euphrates.
1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 716 The term Hebrew, which signifies transfluvial,..was applied to the posterity of Abraham, because they came from beyond the Euphrates. 1862S. Lucas Secularia (1863) 92 As the lower curve..was intersected..by the river Avon, it included the transfluvial parishes of St. Mary Redcliffe, Thomas and Temple. 18..Lowell Orient. Apol. v, The sacred rites and laws of his Transfluvial rival.
So transˈfluvian a., in same sense.
1848Times 18 Oct. 3/5 His successors were rather kings of Candahar, with some transfluvian provinces, than kings of India in our sense. 1865Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 3 As long as this part of the Mississippi remained to the Confederates all the produce of the transfluvian region was theirs. |